The three-year criminal investigation that followed made Zimmermann a sort of cypherpunk folk hero for privacy advocates, though he was never formally prosecuted.
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The denizens of the Cypherpunk Mailing List drew the blueprints for that massive improvised explosive device, refining the recipe not just with theory but with years of trial and error, testing the limits of anonymity and antigovernment provocation.
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